05/29/1914
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"If you have approved of my leadership and wish me to continue to be your unembarrassed spokesman in affairs at home and abroad, I earnestly beg that you will express yourself unmistakably to that effe..."
"I submit my difficulties and my hopes to you."
"Unity of command is as necessary now in civil action as it is upon the field of battle."
"I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a political party, but for the sake of the nation itself, in order that its inward unity..."